Education
BSc, University of Victoria, 1994
MSc, McGill University, 1998
PhD, McGill University, 2001
Biographical Sketch
Dana Small joined the John B. Pierce Laboratory in June, 2004 as an Assistant Fellow. She received her M.Sc. in Neuroscience in 1998 and her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology in 2001 from McGill University in the laboratory of Dr. Marilyn Jones-Gotman. Following her graduate work she moved to Northwestern University in Chicago where she trained with Dr. Marsel-Mesulam as an Assistant Professor of Neurology. Dr. Small’s research has focused upon food reward and flavor processing in the human brain using radioligand and functional neuroimaging techniques. Currently she has funding from the National Institutes of Health to study taste-odor integration, cognitive and affective influences on taste processing in the human brain and neural encoding of anticipatory and consummatory food reward as a function of body mass index and smoking status. She is always on the look out for bright and enthusiastic students and post-doctoral fellows to join her lab, which currently includes graduate students from the Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program at Yale University School of Medicine, undergraduate students from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Yale University, high school students from Connecticut, research assistants from assorted places in North America and post-doctoral fellows from all over the world. One of her greatest pleasures in science is seeing her lab members discover and shine. She is a member of the Association for Chemoreception Sciences, the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, the Society for Neuroscience, and the International Neuropsychological Symposium. In 2003 she received the Ajinomoto Award for Research in Gustation, in 2005 she won the Moskowitz Jacobs Award for Research Excellence in the Psychophysics of Taste and Smell and in 2007 she was awarded the Firmenich Flavor & Fragrance Science Award. She is also honored to have been included as an expert muggle scientist in the book “The Science Behind Harry Potter” by Roger Highfield. In addition to tasting and feeding, Dr. Small enjoys juggling, playing guitar and spending time with her husband, David, and son, Darwin.
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